I have not tried any of the alpha or beta releases yet. But now I see Micheal's horror story. PLEASE do not assume that a server can display ANY kind of graphics. All my servers run headles and can only be logged in with ssh. If really no other way, I have to bring a keyboard/display to the rack... Again please let the init messages flow over our consoles.
Just my 2$c Egbert Jan (NL) HCC!Hobbynet admininistrator > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Michael Waltz > Verzonden: dinsdag 23 maart 2010 21:57 > Aan: [email protected] > Onderwerp: Changes in booting with ubuntu-server 10.04 > > > After trying out the alpha and beta releases of Ubuntu I am > finding that > the booting method of 10.04 is greatly altered. I understand > why there > were made, to improve the boot time and make it look nicer, but they > seem to contrast with how a server should boot. > > With a traditional unix-like startup a server administrator > expects to > see what exactly is booting on the system and if there are > any failures > or warnings. It seems that this is not the case in 10.04 so > far. When I > first installed Alpha 3, grub automatically booted to the first OS > listing without even listing the menu (I understand you can > use ESC to > go into the menu) and then plymouth took over displaying a > splash screen > until the login prompt without showing any boot information. > > Are there plans for the 10.04 server version to keep with a > traditional > server start-up? Or is this the default we should expect upon > install? > I've changed a few things, such as enabling the grub menu with a 5 > second timeout, removing plymouth on install, but there are > still a few > bits that make booting seem odd. The first is that the > systems boots by > default to tty7, displaying a blank screen like it's expecting X to > start up. The second is I'm unable to find a way to have > upstart display > any information about what init or init.d scripts are running. > > There are a few bug reports on these items, but they're not > necessarily > "bugs" it seems since this is how the desktop flavor is > suppose to work. > > With 10.04 server can we expect a traditional server boot or are > individual admins going to have to enable these extra bits of > verbosity > manually? > > -- > Micheal Waltz > SMG Unix Infrastructure > Qualcomm Inc. > Phone: 858-845-6083 > Cell: 858-882-7079 > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam > -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
